Month: February 2020

Mary Higgins Clark, the bestselling “Queen of Suspense” who wrote dozens of suspense novels sold worldwide, has died. Clark’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, confirmed her death in a tweet Friday night. “She passed away peacefully this evening at the age of 92 surrounded by family and friends,” the publisher said. Clark’s writing career spanned decades,

LONDON (AP) — British police have charged two people in the December theft of millions of pounds’ (dollars’) worth of jewelry from the home of heiress Tamara Ecclestone. Police said Saturday that London residents Maria Mester, 47, and Emil-Bogdan Savastru, 29, have been charged with conspiracy to commit burglary. Two other men who had been

Sixty years ago, four African American college students quietly sat down at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and waited. They kept waiting, despite receiving no service and requests to leave. The next day, they came back and waited all over again. Within three days of their protest beginning, more than 300

Three kittens were in serious peril until Kendall Diwisch’s quick-thinking — and a cup of coffee — saved their lives. Diwisch was at the right place at the right time. He was driving down a back road near one of his wells in Alberta, Canada, when he noticed a trio of kittens in the middle

A South Carolina animal sanctuary is asking for volunteers to cuddle their rescue pigs. In December 2018, Cotton Branch Farm Animal Sanctuary rescued 225 abused and neglected pigs from a property in Kentucky, according to CNN affiliate WIS. Its goal is to place more than 100 of the pigs in households as pets. In the

The first day of February is commonly seen as the beginning of Black History Month, but the day’s significance actually goes much deeper. It starts in 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves. But Lincoln knew that a proclamation wouldn’t be enough — leading to the creation of the 13th Amendment.